The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I’m asking you to believe in yours.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.